COMMENTARY, the latest film by playwright/independent filmmaker Aaron Mark, which features an ensemble of Broadway veterans, will officially premiere on Wednesday, February 1st at 7:15 PM at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave. at 2nd St.) as part of NewFilmmakers New York. Tickets are $6 at the door.
The 86 minute comedy stars Tony nominee Alison Fraser (March of the Falsettos, The Divine Sister), Tony nominee Tom Hewitt (Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show), Tony nominee Liz Larsen (A New Brain, Starmites), Chip Zien (Into the Woods, The People in the Picture), Leslie Kritzer (Sondheim on Sondheim, A Catered Affair), Gerry McIntyre (Once On This Island, Enter Laughing), Katie Klaus (Bonnie and Clyde, A Catered Affair), Peter Vack (MTV’s I Just Want My Pants Back), and Zachary Isaacson (Random Unrelated Projects).
COMMENTARY documents nine people as they record a DVD commentary for a film-within-the-film that is never seen, called Waste. In Rashomon fashion, the film follows four groups as they record their commentaries: The writer/director of Waste (Isaacson) and the film’s Oscar-winning star (Fraser), three supporting actors from Waste (Kritzer, McIntyre, and Vack), the producer (Hewitt) and his assistant (Klaus), and the parents of the recently deceased starlet of Waste (Zien and Larsen).
Written, directed, and produced by Aaron Mark, with Michael Lavine and Diana Glazer as executive producers, the film features Jason Robert Brown’s rarely heard song “The Blues Have Got the Best of Me”, performed by Kristine Zbornik (A Catered Affair, Forbidden Broadway). A trailer can be found at aaronmark.net and newfilmmakers.com.
Aaron Mark is the writer/director of three independent feature films, Random Unrelated Projects (Best Experimental Feature, New York International Film Festival), Zbornik Developing (starring Kristine Zbornik), and most recently, Commentary. As a writer, he has had readings of his plays, Failed Suicide Attempts, Fucking Wagner, Plays With Landline Phones, Smoke, Dead Agenting, Cirque du Mental, and Subject, the first of which was presented by The Blank Theatre in Hollywood as part of their Living Room Series. He directed David Colbert in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at New World Stages for BC/EFA twice, Sarah Mucho in Space Oddity/Ziggy Stardust, and worked as an assistant on the national tour of Brooklyn the Musical and Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches at Joe's Pub.
COMMENTARY
86 minutes
Wednesday, February 1st at 7:15 PM
NewFilmmakers New York (newfilmmakers.com)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave. at 2nd St.)
Tickets $6 at the door
